When I use the netstat command to look at the open TCP/IP connections on my PC, there are connections that should be closed that are in the TIME_WAIT state. What is this, and why do connections stay ...

I captured a bunch of packets using ethereal and I am trying to display the first two packets of every TCP connection.<BR><BR>If I go to Statistics -- Conversations -- TCP tab, I can see all the TCP ...

I have a VM in EC2 that has been running dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 successfully for over a year now, but things have recently broken on the IPv6 side. My VPC has a /20 block in RFC1918 space, and a /64 ...

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

What just happened? Introduced in 2015, HTTP/2 brought several enhancements to the HTTP protocol including efficient data transmission, request handling, responsiveness, and header compression for ...